Risk Management built a calibration tracker

“It has a padlock icon.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Leads_new2.xlsm. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 823 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a team lead

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

three AI coding tools arguing through the same repository

Database:

a backup strategy consisting of Bastian copying the folder on Fridays

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

Marco, a team lead. Only Marco.

Documentation:

a Slack thread from November

Security situation:

the API key has never been rotated

Future disaster:

It will discover the backups have never been restored.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 701 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 50x longer than intended, €9k per year, 1 departments depend on it.